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The AntiLibrary

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know … Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.
- Nassim Tassim Taleb, The Black Swan

Authors and books mentioned in The Black Swan, Fooled by Randonmness, and Antifragile.

Mentioned in The Black Swan.The War of the World
by Niall Ferguson
Described in the Black Swan as how the Great War came as a surprise and not how it was see as inevitable by backward looking historians.

Mentioned in Fooled by Randomness, The Back Swan and Antifragile.Choices, Values, and Frames
by Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman the endeared “uberpsychologist”, is one of the few in academia that has the respect of Mr Taleb.